Are environmentalists ruining the economy?
Smart conservative authors have posited that environmentalists will ruin the economy if they get their way. Perhaps an examination of the failures of environmentalists to ruin the economy can show us that they are more inept than evil, or, even more far fetched, that the conservative authors are wrong about the motives and ends of environmentalists and we need to question all the great wisdom conservative pundits have provided us through the years—Who knows, conservatives may have even been wrong about civil rights, women's suffrage, abolition of slavery, equal pay for equal work, etc.
Recycling
For years environmentalists have been touting recycling. Unfortunately, try as they might to ruin the economy, every bit of recycling they've done has reduced the cost of building and maintaining landfills that otherwise have filled faster. They also failed in ruining the economy by inserting materials like aluminum back into the production stream at a lower price than virgin aluminum.
High efficiency automobiles
You've probably seen quite a few of those smug environmentalists driving to Whole Foods in one of those sickening little hybrid cars and SUVs. As much as their smugness would indicate their fiendishness in ruining our economy, the joke is on them because their lowered demand for fuel has reduced prices and even prevented extreme price shocks that would have been due to heightened demand in summer.
Wind power
Among other renewables, environmentalists hug wind turbine towers almost as much as they hug redwood trees and spotted owls. If they really cared for the economy, why would they spur innovative new businesses that are increasing world trade and new markets? Their blindness to traditional economic needs has prevented them from seeing that their plot to ruin the economy has backfired, as tens of thousands of new jobs are created just to serve their crazy, anti-fossil-fuel whims.
Conclusion
In conclusion, environmentalists have miserably failed to ruin the economy.
